| Just finished working on a mix where the drummer had bashed away on an open hat and spilled all over the snare and OHs. We tried everything we had in our racks to tame the sibilant hat sound and ended up using a Neve 2254-style CompressorBank plug-in on the OHs to smooth things out (my real 2254 won't arrive for another week, dammit!). It was a little better but it would have been much better had the tracking engineer caught this up front. Some things just can't be properly fixed in the mix, and this was one of them!
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